1Data for 1978-1987 are from Pietsch, T. W. (1987), see note 67.Data for 1988 to September 2002 were taken
from the visitor’s logbook of the Fish Collection.Visitors were not record from April 1998 to
September 2001.The marked increase in
visitors beginning in 1990 was due to the opening of the new Collection
facility.It also meant that visiting
scientists had a clean, organized, and comfortable place to work and that the
Collection was easily accessible.The
large number of visitors in 1997 was due to the presence of the American
Society of Ichthyologist and Herpetologist annual meeting on the UW campus in that
year.The relative diligence of the
Collections Manager in asking visitors to “log in" is also a significant
factor.